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Just a Boulder

NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Rocks and waves of sand dom­i­nate this image of Mars from the HiRISE cam­era. How­ever, some find an mys­te­ri­ous rectangular-shaped boul­der stick­ing out of a hillside.

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Rainbow Infrared

ESA Her­schel

A rain­bow stretches across the Orion Neb­ula in this image from the ESA’s Her­schel and NASA’s Spitzer space telescopes.

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Kicking in the Void

NASA, ESA, CFHT, CXO, M.J. Jee (Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, Davis), and A. Mah­davi (San Fran­cisco State University)

A translu­cent leg kicks out at an orange ball in this com­bined image of merg­ing galaxy clus­ter Abell 520 from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope, Chan­dra X-ray Obser­va­tory and the Canada-France Hawaii Telescope.

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Rising From the Mist

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team

A strange bee­tle seems to rise from the mist of super­nova rem­nant Pup­pis A in this image from NASA’s Wide-field Sur­vey Explorer, or WISE, telescope.

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Landing a UFO

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

The NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Tele­scope lands a UFO in this near edge-on extra­galac­ti­cal image of spi­ral galaxy NGC 2683.

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The ancient peo­ples saw pic­tures in the sky. From those pat­terns in the heav­ens, ancient sto­ry­tellers cre­ated leg­ends about heroes, maid­ens, drag­ons, bears, cen­taurs, dogs and myth­i­cal crea­tures…
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